thoughts on including m&a deals on your resume that were rejected?
curious to hear everyone’s thoughts as well as prior experience on this. worked on a $4b sell side, in which our client received an unsolicited bid. ultimately, our client turned it down because they didn’t think it was enough.
we did a ton of work on it, and I think it would be something interesting to talk about in PE interviews, and explain why I thought they were right or wrong to do so (my bank also doesn’t usually see deals of this size that often).
thoughts on this? has anyone does this before? I’ve seen people from top firms list cancelled/terminated deals, but they’d been announced so there might be a difference.
If you have to ask then it's probably not a good idea. You can always talk about the deal but make it vague so that it's not obvious who it was. Chances are a deal as big as traveled through the grapevine and many people are aware of it. However, I don't think it's worth the risk listing the name on your resume.
left a comment before seeing you wrote this here - the bid wasn’t publicly announced and I’d just like on my resume “$450m market cap manufacturing company” for example and would obviously not write company names
also I would obviously leave out their names and just include what size companies they were, what they were trading at etc
Do not do that. There is very limited upside. If you keep the deal too vague then theres no value in talking about it but if you give out some info like multiples and industry and I know what your bank's banking relationships are in the industry, it is not too hard to have a good idea about who you are talking about.
I understand that you want a sexy deal on ur resume but the fact that you are putting on deals that didn't even get announced just shows lack of dealflow and lack of judgement.
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